Calling out A levelers Maths, Sciences etc. What do you mean when you say revise?

i write down info from the textbook and i will try to use past questions in the future

Revision for me is basically doing a little bit of reading in the evenings in preparation for the next school day. The next school day I try to do all the homework in lessons that I was supposed to do the previous evening !

Interesting, I make notes from my guides and try to tackle the questions.



Right I see.

Do any of you guys, go ahead of where your class are - meaning do work that they havent covered yet?

yeah i try to for biology and geography but im kinda short of time usually

Revising. As long as you're going through topics at the right speed, you don't need to be learning stuff before you get to it in school, it just means you'll be bored later when you're being taught it again in school (It got a bit boring learning integration by parts 3 times)

I did textbook notes for Physics, condensed the textbook into ~10 pages along with tables for the definitions to memorise. I also read mark schemes and occasionally examiners reports, as they tell you exactly what you need to include in answers, and the reports tell you where everyone else screws up so you can focus on those bits/

For maths, past or mock exam questions.

This is what I was looking for too thanks.

Would you advise doing other boards questions for maths, and for other subjects?

It's not something I looked at, but if you can find similar content from other exam boards then yeah you can do those questions too.

Check their mark schemes first though, if other boards want you to answer questions using different working/methods than what your board says, I'd ignore those parts of their mark schemes and just make sure you get the right answer. Only answer exam questions in the way your board says otherwise you might lose method marks.

ah cool gr8 advvice.

u doing a levels atm brah?

Just finished this year, going to university in a week.

Nice, your grades are envyus :d

May I ask you why you are going York and not a higher uni if you don't mind me asking.

Nice course, too though. However Mechanics itself @ A Level is quite laborious if you nomsaying?

Thanks, I wanted to do joint maths/physics so that limited choices a bit. I was interested in Durham, but they didn't do the course and it's only 20 minutes away from my house, so a little too close to home. I got a B (210 UMS) at AS Physics as well, so some universities that needed an A/A* at A2 Physics may not have given me an offer. My options after results day were either York, adjustment or a gap year, and universities don't like maths students taking gap years. Also all the higher ranked universities that offered the course are mainly down south, and I didn't want to move that far away.

York seemed like a good combination of: good uni (Russell group and top 20), distance away from home (1 hour by train) and I liked the modules on offer. Plus I'm interested in nuclear fusion and they have the York Plasma Institute on campus.

Mechanics 1 was so boring for me. We did it in normal maths at A2, but unit 2 Physics (which was mainly mechanics) was done at AS, so everyone who had done AS physics already knew pretty much all of M1. We just did FP4 in M1 lessons instead. M2 was a lot better though.

Quite insightful, fair play to you brah.

You seem like a decent guy, I wish you all the best at uni mate

Last question, for someone extremely willing to get straight a stars at a level, do you have any specific advice to help me out please